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The Wilderness (podcast)
Crooked Media is a progressive American political media company. It was founded in 2017 by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, all former top Barack Obama staffers and former co-hosts of the '' Keepin' it 1600'' podcast. Dan Pfeiffer, also a former Obama employee, co-hosts their flagship podcast '' Pod Save America'' with them. The company's offerings encompass a network of podcasts; a news and opinion website; live shows and tours; and a social media and live streaming presence. It aims to foster open conversation between liberals and support grassroots activism and political participation. The company's flagship podcast, ''Pod Save America'', airs twice weekly and averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode. In Fall 2018, four ''Pod Save America'' one-hour specials aired on HBO. By November of its first year, the podcast had been downloaded more than 120 million times, and 175 million times by February 2018. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, Californi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization. He expanded the company's operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice''. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies. Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josie Duffy Rice
Josie Duffy Rice ('' née'' Duffy) is an American writer and political commentator. Recently, she served as president of ''The Appeal'', a news outlet that centers the criminal justice system. Duffy Rice also co-hosted the podcast ''Justice in America''. Her work has been cited by ''The New York Times''. Early life and education Duffy Rice was born Josie Duffy, the eldest daughter of Eugene and Norrene Duffy, and was raised in Atlanta. She has one sister, For Keeps bookstore owner Rosa Duffy. Her grandmother is Josie Johnson, a civil rights movement activist who organized heavily in Minneapolis. Duffy Rice received her bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University. She worked as an executive assistant for a public defender organization in the Bronx directly out of college, which influenced her decision to attend law school. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Duffy Rice preferred writing to legal work, and after law school she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Madison III
Ira Madison III (born July 28, 1986) is an American television writer and podcaster. He is the main host of the Crooked Media podcast ''Keep It!'' He is a former critic at ''The Daily Beast'', ''GQ Magazine'', and other publications. Early life Madison attended Marquette University High School, then attended Loyola University Chicago as an undergraduate, then New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for a master's degree in Dramatic Writing. Career Madison worked as a writer for MTV News and BuzzFeed in the early 2010s. He has since written for various publications, including ''Variety'', ''GQ Magazine'', and ''The Daily Beast''. Madison was named one of the "most reliably hilarious and incisive cultural critics writing now" by ''Nylon'' in 2016. ''Nylon'' also named Madison to its 2016 list of "The 25 Best Things We Read Online In 2016" for his essay on Donald Trump's political rise. Madison co-hosted a podcast at MTV News with Doreen St. Félix in 2016 called ''Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Gloria Ryan
Erin Gloria Ryan is an American writer, political opinion columnist, and podcaster. She is the host of ''Hysteria'' on the ''Crooked Media'' podcast network, and a contributor to ''The Daily Beast''. Early life and education Ryan was born in Frederic, Wisconsin, a small town in western Wisconsin. She studied English at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating from college in 2005, she moved to the South Side of Chicago, initially as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. In 2007, she began working for Merrill Lynch, where she remained until 2011. Career In 2011, Ryan moved to New York City and began writing for the website ''Jezebel'', also becoming a contributor to ''The New York Times'' and ''Playboy''. She then became the managing editor at ''Jezebel'', until she moved to ''Vocativ'' in 2015 to be the senior editor there. In 2016, she was hired as a senior editor by ''The Daily Beast'', where she continues to be a regular contributor of political and cultural opinion pieces. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imani J
Imani may refer to: People Given name * Imani (rapper) (born 1971), American rapper * Imani Perry (born 1972), American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture * Imani Sanga (born 1972), Tanzanian musicologist * Imani Coppola (born 1978), American singer-songwriter and violinist * Imani Patterson (born 1985), former African-American actor * Imani Hakim (born 1993), American actress * Imani Uzuri, African-American vocalist Surname * Blair Imani, African-American Muslim activist Media * ''Imani'' (film), 2010 Swedish/Ugandan film *Imani Firewing, a supporting character of Nickelodeon/Nick Toons 2017 show ''Mysticons'' Organizations * Imani Entertainment, American entertainment company * Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation The African-American Catholic Congregation and its Imani Temples are a Christian denomination founded in 1989 by the Reverend George Augustus Stallings, Jr., a former American Catholic priest based in Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. He has also written for ''HuffPost'' and ''The Guardian''. Along with Johnetta Elzie, Brittany Packnett, and Samuel Sinyangwe, Mckesson launched Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence. He is currently part of Crooked Media and hosts ''Pod Save the People''. On February 3, 2016, Mckesson announced his candidacy in the 2016 Baltimore mayoral election. He finished with 3,445 votes (2.6%), placing sixth in the Democratic Party primary on April 26. Mckesson is the author of ''On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope'', a memoir about his life and time as a Black Lives Matter organizer. Early life, education, and career Mckesson was an organizer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Smith (writer)
Clinton Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of #1 New York Times Best Seller, ''How the Word Is Passed'', which won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2022 by the ''New York Times''. He is also the author of two poetry collections, ''Counting Descent'', which was published in 2016 and ''Above Ground'', set to be published in March 2023. Smith received a doctorate from Harvard University. Early life Smith grew up in New Orleans, where he went to Benjamin Franklin High School for his first three years of high school and later attended the Awty International School in Houston, Texas for his senior year because he and his family fled New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. He attended Davidson College, graduating in 2010 with a B.A. in English. Career Smith taught high school English in Prince George's County, Maryland where he was named the Christine D. Sarba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Rhodes (White House Staffer)
Benjamin J. Rhodes (born November 14, 1977) is an American writer, political commentator and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under President Barack Obama. With Jake Sullivan, he is the co-chair of National Security Action, a political NGO. He contributes to NBC News and MSNBC regularly as a political commentator. He is also a Crooked Media contributor, and co-host of the foreign policy podcast ''Pod Save the World''. Early life and education Rhodes was born on November 14, 1977, in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. He is the son of an Episcopal father from Texas and a Jewish mother from New York. He attended the Collegiate School, graduating in 1996. Rhodes then attended Rice University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2000 with majors in English and political science. He then moved back to New York, attending New York University and graduating in 2002 with an MFA in creative writing. His brother, David Rhode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972) is an American author, blogger, political columnist, and critic. The founding editor of the political blog ''Wonkette'', she was also the Senior Political Correspondent for MTV News, and conducted the "Talk" interviews featured in ''The New York Times Magazine'' from 2015 to 2017. In 2010, Cox held the position of Washington correspondent for '' GQ''. Cox has been a contributor for The Daily Beast since 2009. She previously worked at Air America Media. She was a lead blogger on U.S. politics for ''The Guardian'', until August 2014, and an editor at ''Mother Jones''. Early life Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her family is from Texas and is of Scots-Irish descent. She attended Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper, ''The Clarion''. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1994. She began graduate school at the University of Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyssa Mastromonaco
Alyssa Mende Mastromonaco (born February 22, 1976) is an American author, podcaster, spokeswoman, and former government official. She served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for operations in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2014. She was the youngest woman to hold that position. She was later President of Global Communications Strategy & Talent at A&E Networks and the chief operating officer of Vice Media. She has also been a contributing editor at ''Marie Claire'' magazine. Since 2017, Mastromonaco has been a podcaster with Crooked Media. Early life and education Mastromonaco grew up in Rhinebeck, New York. Her father was a business consultant and her mother was a high school lunch aide. In 1994, she graduated from Rhinebeck High School. During high school Mastromonaco worked in various jobs, including her first job as a checkout person at a grocery store called Kilmer's IGA. Mastromonaco went to the University of Vermont for two years, majoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Osman
Aida Osman (born 1996) is an American writer, stand-up comedian, and actor. She is a former co-host of the podcast, ''Keep It''. She has written for '' Big Mouth,'' ''Betty'', and the HBO Max series ''Rap Sh!t,'' on which she also co-stars. Early life and education Osman grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, to an Ethiopian Jewish father and an Eritrean Muslim mother. She was raised Muslim. The city is predominantly white, and she and her older brother were the only Black children at her school. She aspired to a career related to entertainment from youth. Osman trained in dance, played in the orchestra growing up, and was active in musical theatre in high school. She graduated from Northeast High School. She attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2018. She was accepted into law school, but deferred her admission to pursue comedy. She began performing stand-up comedy in Nebraska and eventually moved to New York City. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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